housing

Hawai`i Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice works to ensure federal and state laws that protect an individual’s ability to live in safe and accessible housing are enforced. Hawai`i Appleseed also seeks to be a policy resource for community groups, administrative agencies, governmental entities, and other non-profit organizations that want to understand how housing laws and policies can be used to improve the state of public housing projects in Hawai`i.

Hawai`i Appleseed has been involved in advocacy for individuals living in the State's Housing Projects to improving housing conditions and to increase utility allowances.

We have also produced a policy brief entitled "Addressing Homelessness: New Approaches to Affordable Housing in Hawai`i," detailing the growing homelessness issue in the state and providing cheap alternatives for affordable housing.

Click here to read the report in color
Click here for black and white.


Staff Attorney Jenny Lee appears on PBS Hawaii's Island Insights with Dan Boylan to discuss homelessness and affordable housing on April 18, 2013. View the video below or click here to view it on YouTube.

Executive Director Victor Geminiani appears on PBS Hawaii's Island Insight show discussing Affordable Housing, in reference to the report we released in February 2012.

Click here to view the video from PBS's video archive.